Posts Tagged 'Black Face'

Revisting “Au Dahomey” (1892). Or: A Blackface King Béhazin?

19/06/2022·1 comment·

I came upon this grand 1892 poster this week… I didn’t know anything about the show, my experience of the

Eubie Blake: Rags, Rhythm and Race arrives as a most welcome and long overdue biography of pianist and composer Eubie

In Dahomey was an early American “Negro musical comedy” (in a prologue and 2 acts), one of the first to be

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It’s not a new topic, but a brand new book nonetheless: Black Broadway by Stewart F. Lane. According to the

It’s interesting how you can have a full cast recording sitting on your CD shelf for decades, and it never

Daniel Defoe’s shipwrecked hero (1719) and his man Friday seem to have made their first appearance on the musical stage

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A seventy-one year old man, a little crippled these days, lying in the too-scorching sun by the Australian seaside, reading

Why is the upcoming revival of Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That

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It is often interesting to compare how researchers in different parts of the Western world look at art forms in

Most people would probably agree: operetta is all about performance. And, more to the point, about turning realities upside down